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Community Organizing as Resilience-Building The Case of Our Water B.C.

About the Freshwater Alliance Supporting active, engaged and diverse communities to realize healthy waters for all in Canada.

On Resilience ● Often used interchangeably with “adaptation” ● “Ability to adapt to changing conditions, anticipate shocks, build up capacity to recover” ● Government of Canada: “Adaptation and climate resilience”

Resilience: On the Rise Source: Hill & Kakenmaster, 2018

Resilience: Adaptation + Transformation

Community Organizing as Resilience-Building “Leadership that enables people to turn the resources they have into the power they need to make the change they want”

Community Organizing as Resilience-Building Building public support for a ● cause ○ Canvassing Recruiting volunteers ○ ● Driving attention ○ Media coverage Town halls or forus ○ ● Influencing decision-makers ○ Meeting with officials Writing letters ○ Signing Petitions ○ ○ Holding demonstrations

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Scaling up: Local Issues → Root Causes

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